Organization of the Parent Company and The Operating Partnership

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]

ORGANIZATION OF THE PARENT COMPANY AND THE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP

1. ORGANIZATION OF THE PARENT COMPANY AND THE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP

The Parent Company is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that provides leasing, property management, development, redevelopment, acquisition and other tenant-related services for a portfolio of office and industrial properties. The Parent Company owns its assets and conducts its operations through the Operating Partnership and subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership. The Parent Company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership and, as of December 31, 2015, owned a 99.1% interest in the Operating Partnership. The Parent Company’s common shares of beneficial interest are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “BDN”.

As of December 31, 2015, the Company owned 179 properties, consisting of 106 office properties, six industrial facilities, three mixed-use properties, one retail property (116 core properties), two development properties, 59 properties classified as held for sale, one redevelopment property and one re-entitlement property (collectively, the “Properties”) containing an aggregate of approximately 23.0 million net rentable square feet.  In addition, as of December 31, 2015, the Company owned economic interests in 16 unconsolidated real estate ventures that contain approximately 4.3 million net rentable square feet (collectively, the “Real Estate Ventures”).  As of December 31, 2015, the Company also owned 412 acres of undeveloped land, of which 120 acres were held for sale, and held options to purchase a parcel containing approximately 50 additional acres of undeveloped land.  As of December 31, 2015, the total potential development that these land parcels could support, under current zoning, entitlements or combination thereof, amounted to an estimated 7.1 million square feet.  The Properties and the properties owned by the Real Estate Ventures are located in or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Metropolitan Washington, D.C.; Southern New Jersey; Richmond, Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; Austin, Texas and Oakland and Concord, California. In addition to managing properties that the Company owns, as of December 31, 2015, the Company was managing approximately 6.5 million net rentable square feet of office and industrial properties for third parties and Real Estate Ventures.

All references to building square footage, acres, occupancy percentage the number of buildings and tax basis are unaudited.

The Company conducts its third-party real estate management services business primarily through six management companies (collectively, the “Management Companies”): Brandywine Realty Services Corporation (“BRSCO”), BTRS, Inc. (“BTRS”), Brandywine Properties I Limited, Inc. (“BPI”), BDN Brokerage, LLC (“BBL”), Brandywine Properties Management, L.P. (“BPM”) and Brandywine Brokerage Services, LLC (“BBS”). Each of BRSCO, BTRS and BPI is a taxable REIT subsidiary. As of December 31, 2015, the Operating Partnership owns, directly and indirectly, 100% of each of BRSCO, BTRS, BPI, BBL, BPM and BBS.  As of December 31, 2015, the Management Companies were managing properties containing an aggregate of approximately 29.5 million net rentable square feet, of which approximately 23.0 million net rentable square feet related to Properties owned by the Company and approximately 6.5 million net rentable square feet related to properties owned by third parties and Real Estate Ventures.